Forum > Weird Wars
Weird War II read/watch/play list (updated 3/22/13)
(1/18) > >>
Xenomrph:
Weird War II stuff tends to span a few broad sub-genres:
- Occult: factions of the war engaging in "dark arts" in order to harness supernatural powers for various purposes. Summoning demons from hell, acquiring holy relics, attempting to access other dimensions, or using other forms of "arcane knowledge", etc. Some of this has basis in fact - Nazi Germany had several occult groups of which many prominent Nazi officials were members, and they legitimately believed they could tap into hidden knowledge of the supernatural in order to help them win the war. Expeditions were actually sent to locate relics around the world.
- Super-science: Scientific breakthroughs were plentiful during the war, but what if the factions were equipping really weird shit? Particle weapons, teleportation, flying saucers, time-travel, freakish medical experiments, etc. Again this has some basis in fact - as the war continued (and especially as Germany got more and more desperate) scientists engaged in increasingly off-the-wall experiments and ideas. There was a great deal of experimental technology that didn't get past the drawing board for various reasons - lack of funding, materials, facilities, practicality, or the fact that the war ended and there wasn't a need for it anymore.
- Alternate-history: what if things had played out differently, a different decision was made somewhere that changed the course of the war? What if the Nazis had won the war, what would the world be like today? What if we had been forced to engage in a land-war with Japan? This has a sort of sub-category to it as well:
- Conspiracy-theory: did Hitler *really* commit suicide in his bunker? Have high-ranking Nazis been in positions of power since the war's end? Do we really know everything about the war?
Beyond this, Weird War II stuff tends to fall into one of three types:
- Fiction: exactly what it sounds like. Jetpack-wearing Nazis with deathrays spilling out of UFOs to combat Allied mech-walkers armed with tesla weapons, shit like that. The tone can be all over the place, from depressingly apocalyptic to two-fisted pulp-action to nail-biting suspense-thriller and anything in between. Weird War II is broad enough that it can really accommodate any tone or style an author might want to implement.
- Non-fiction: obviously more mundane than fiction, but not necessarily less interesting. Historical accounts of expeditions to recover holy relics, technical discussions of war-time breakthroughs, thought experiments about alternate courses of the war with an eye for historical accuracy and plausability, etc
- "Non-fiction": alternative-publisher accounts of war-time activities, basically likely-fiction written as if it's non-fiction. Conspiracy theories about postwar Nazi organizations, Nazi contact with extraterrestrials, government coverups of secret experiments, stuff that the authors really want you to believe because it'll completely destroy everything you thought you knew about the world. Even if it's totally bonkers, it's still fun to think about.
Here's a ridiculous list of a lot of the myriad stuff I've got, listed with title and author (list updated 10/21/12) :
Fiction Alternate History 1945, Newt Gingrich & William R Forstchen Adolf in Wonderland, Carlton Mellick III The Afrika Reich, Guy Saville After Dachau, Daniel Quinn Aftermath, Ladislas Farago Against the Day, Michael Cronin Ass Goblins of Auschwitz, Cameron Pierce Axis of Time: Weapons of Choice, John Birmingham Axis of Time: Designated Targets, John Birmingham Axis of Time: Final Impact, John Birmingham Bitter Seeds, Ian Tregillis Budspy, David Dvorkin A Change of Regime, J. N. Stroyar ChangingUniverse: SS World, Terrance Dicks The Children's War, J. N. Stroyar Clash of Eagles, Leo Rutman Collaborator, Murray Davies Cracken at Critical, Brian W. Aldiss Declare, Tim Powers The Devil's Gold, Steve Berry * The Divide, William Overgard Fatherland, Robert Harris Fox on the Front, Douglas Niles & Michael Dobson Fox on the Rhine, Douglas Niles & Michael Dobson Free Zone, Charles Platt Hitler Invades England, George Crall ** Hitler Victorious, Gregory Benford & Martin Harry Greenberg Hitler's Ashes: How Hitler's Assassination Leads to the Development of Germany's Atomic Bomb, John T. Cox The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson In the Morning, Michael Cronin In the Presence of Mine Enemies, Harry Turtledove The Iron Dream, Norman Spinrad ** Knights of the White Camelia: The Evolution of the Fourth Reich, James Hester The Leader, Guy Walters Making History, Stephen Fry The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick The Man with the Iron Heart, Harry Turtledove Moon of Ice, Brad Linaweaver North Reich, Robert Conroy * Order of the Black Sun, Jack Follett * Origin, Alexander Julien * Pax Brtiannia: El Sombre, Al Ewing Pax Britannia: Gods of Manhattan, Al Ewing Pax Britannia: Anno Frankenstein, Jonathan Green Pax Britannia: Pax Omega, Al Ewing The Plot Against America, Philip Roth The Proteus Operation, James P. Hogan Retromancer, Robert Rankin The Second Great War, Alex Night * Seelowe Nord, Andy Johnson The Sound of His Horn, Sarban SS-GB, Len Deighton Swastika Night, Katherine Burdekin Tannhauser: Operation Night Eagle, Blaine Lee Pardoe Through the Night, Michael Cronin Time's Tapestry: Weaver, Stephen Baxter Timewyrm: Exodus, Terrance Dicks To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis Two Dooms, C. M. Cornbluth The Ultimate Solution, Eric Norden War in the West, Brian Clarke * Wolf Hunt: The Burning Ages, Sebastian P. Breit Worldwar: In the Balance, Harry Turtledove Worldwar: Tilting the Balance, Harry Turtledove Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance, Harry Turtledove Worldwar: Striking the Balance, Harry Turtledove World War II 1939-1948, Bem Allen
Conspiracy Theory The Apocalypse Watch, Robert Ludlum Area 217, Gary Gamage Axis Mundi, David Saxe The Berkut, Joseph Heywood The Charlemagne Pursuit, Steve Berry Fifth Column, Christopher Remy ** The Fourth Reich, Mitchel Matovich ** Fourth Reich Rising, Tom Schwartz * The Fuhrer Document, Jerry Barksdale The Hitler Project, John Brinling * The Holcroft Covenant, Robert Ludlum In Pursuit of Platinum, Vic Robbie ** The Last Great Secret of the Third Reich, Arthur O. Naujoks, Lee Nelson Lost Treasure of the Fourth Reich, Barrett J. Clisby * The Nazi Conspiracy, Scott Strosahl ** The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H, George Steiner Rising Sons, Michael Kline ** The Seventh Secret, Irving Wallace The Wewelsburg Covenant, John Braun Who Will Watch the Watchers, Edwin Fadiman Jr.
Occult/Supernatural Accursed, G Johanson ** Ahriman's Light, Mike Eldredge The Agarthi Conspiracy: The Fist of God, M.E. Brines * The Agarthi Conspiracy: The Unholy Grail, M.E. Brines * Atlantis God, David Gibbins The Atrocity Archives, Charles Stross Black Camelot, Duncan Kyle Blood of the Reich, William Dietrich Blood Reich, Brian Jackson ** Blood Tithe, Glenn Soucy *Caballistics, Inc.: Hell on Earth, Mike Wild Caballistics, Inc.: Hell on Earth, Mike Wild Dagger Magic, Katherine Kurtz & Deborah Turner Harris Dark Victory, Michele Lang Death Knell, C. Terry Cline Jr. Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy, Dennis Detwiller The Demon Cross, Nathan Shumate ** Demon Reich, T. L. Rice The Devils of D-Day, Graham Masterson Dogs of War, Steve Ruthenbeck Ezcape from Sobibor, David Fischler * Fiends of the Eastern Front, David Bishop The Fourth Reich, Robert Van Kampen Gods of Atlantis, David Gibbins Golem, Greg Vilk Good and Evil, I.M. Spartacus ** Hardluck Hannigan: Curse of the Kill Devil, Bill Craig Hardluck Hannigan: River of the Sun, Bill Craig Hardluck Hannigan: The Spear of Goliath, Bill Craig Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead, Steve Perry Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth, Max McCoy Indiana Jones and the Mystery of Mount Sinai, J. W. Rinzler Indiana Jones and the Pyramid of the Sorcerer, Ryder Windham The Keep, F. Paul Wilson Konig's Fire, Marc Schooley Lady Lazarus, Michele Lang Lammas Night, Katherine Kurtz The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones Lycanthropos, Jeffrey Sackett ** The Midnight Guardian, Sarah Jane Stratford The Moonlight Brigade, Sarah Jane Stratford Nazi Werewoofs, Karl Larew ** The Night Boat, Robert R. McCammon Night Fighters, Rob Smith ** The Night the Nazis Came to Dinner, Sean McLachlan * Nostradamus Ate My Hamster, Robert Rankin Occupation, Jeff L Dawson * Panzer Spirit, Tom Townsend The Seventh Sanctuary, Saniel Easterman Shadows in the Mist, Brian Moreland The Spear of Destiny (A Lance Chambers Mystery), Jason E. Thummell ** The Summons, David Whish-Wilson The Sisterhood of the Rose, Jim Marrs The Spear, James Herbert The Spear of Destiny, ME Brines * They Used Dark Forces, Dennis Wheatley Tomb of the Lost, Julian Noyce * Underland, Mick Farren The Vril Codex, Ben Manning ** The Vril Codex II, Ben Manning ** The Werewolf's Tale, Richard Jaccoma The Werewolf's Revenge, Richard Jaccoma The Wolf's Hour, Robert R. McCammon World War of the Dead, Eric S. Brown **
Super-Science '48, James Herbert The Alien Factor, Stan Lee, Stan Timmons Atlantis Found, Clive Cussler Atlantium: Nazi Time Machine, Roc Hatfield * Black Order, James Rollins The Black Sun, James Twining Blood Toys, Floyd Wray * The Boys from Brazil, Ira Levn The Day After Tomorrow, Allan Folsom The Destroyer: Brain Storm, Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir The Destroyer: The Empire Dreams, Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir The Destroyer: Failing Marks, Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir The Eldridge Conspiracy, Stephen Ames Berry * Empire of Ice, Emma Daniels * The Executioner: Devil's Guard, Don Pendleton The Experiment, Barbara Kyle * The Furies, Bill Napier Hitler's Bomb, Chris Scott Hitler's Last Gasp, Manfred Krutein The Hunt for the Fourth Reich, James Berg * Ice Reich, William Dietrich Inception, W. A. Harbinson The Last Way Station: Hitler's Final Journey, Jon Reisfeld * Lightning, Dean Koontz Lost World Found, Robert Larrison Night of the Nazi Zombies, Michael G. Thomas ** Operation Devil's Fire, Ronn Munsterman ** Operation: Montauk, Bryan Young * Operation Sepsis, Christian Fletcher * OSS Commando: Hitler's A-Bomb, Charles Sasser Overlords of Mars, Giuseppe Filotto Patton's Spaceship, John Barnes Reichbahn Six-Nine, Tom Townsend Secret World Chronicles: Invasion, Mercedes Lackey Shadow Project, Scott Mariani The Sky Club, Ian Feldman Sniper Elite: Spear of Destiny, Jasper Bark Space Nazis Vs. EXOTROOPERS!, David N. Brown * Sun of the Sleepless, Patrick Horne * Swastika, Michael Slade Vertical Run, Joseph Garber Von Neumann's Last Experiment, James Pratt * Zombies vs Nazis, Scott Kenemore
Non-Fiction Alternate History Disaster at D-Day, Peter Tsouras Hitler Triumphant: Alternate Decisions of World War II, Peter Tsouras How Hitler Could Have Won World War II, Bevin Alexander If Hitler Had Won, Richard E. Osborne Luftwaffe Over America, Manfred Griehl Target America: Hitler's Plan to Attack the United States, James P. Duffy Third Reich Victorious, Peter G. Tsouras What if?: Strategic Alternatives of World War II, Harold Deutsch & Dennis Showalter The World Hitler Never Made, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Conspiracy Theory The Axmann Conspiracy: The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the U.S. Army Defeated It, Scott Andrew Selby Hitler, The Survival Myth, Donald M. McKale Hitler's Werewolves, Charles Whiting Inside the Fourth Reich, Erich Erdstein & Barbara Bean Order of Battle: Hitlers Werewolves, Ib Melchior Secrets of the S.S., Glenn B. Infield
Occult Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism, David Luhrssen Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race, Christopher Hale Hitler and the Occult, Ken Anderson Hitler's Holy Relics, Sidney D. Kirkpatrick Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts: Himmler's Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS, Bill Yenne The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust, Heather Pringle The Nazis and the Occult, D. Sklar The Nazis and the Occult: Dark Forces Unleashed by the Third Reich, Paul Roland Nazis and the Occult: The Dark Forces Unleashed by the Third Reich (2nd ed), Paul Roland Nazisploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture, Elizabeth Bridges, et al Occult and the Third Reich: The Mystical Origins of Nazism and the Search for the Holy Grail, Jean-Michel Angebert The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Grail: The Amazing Life of the Real "Indiana Jones", Nigel Graddon The Secret King: The Myth and Reality of Nazi Occultism, Stephen E. Flowers & Michael Moynihan Unexplained Mysteries of World War II, William B Breuer Unholy Alliance, Peter Levenda
Super-Science German & Allied Secret Weapons of World War II, Ian V. Hogg & J. B. King The German Atomic Bomb: The History of Nuclear Research in Nazi Germany, David Irving German Secret Weapons: Blueprint for Mars, Brian Ford German Secret Weapons of World War II, Ian V Hogg Germany's Secret Weapons in World War II, Roger Ford Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology, Henry Stevens Hitler's Terror Weapons: From Doodlebug to Nuclear Warheads, Geoffrey Brooks The Hunt for Zero Point, Nick Cook Last Talons of the Eagle: Secret Nazi Technology Which Could Have Changed the Course of World War II, Gary Hyland & Anton Gill Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Fighters 1939-1945, Walter Schick & Ingolf Meyer Luftwaffe X-Planes: German Experimental and Prototype Planes of World War II, Manfred Griehl My Tank Is Fight!, Zack Parsons The Mystery of U-33: Hitler's Secret Envoy, Nigel Graddon Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb, Mark Walker Secret Aircraft Designs of the Third Reich, David Myhra Secret Weapons: Technology, Science, and the Race to Win World War II, Brian J. Ford Secret Weapons of World War II, William B Breuer Secret Weapons of World War II, Bill Yenne Secret Wonder Weapons of the Third Reich: German Missiles 1934-1945, J. Miranda & P. Mercado U-boat!: The Rare Type, Harry Cooper Vengeance: Hitler's Nuclear Weapon : Fact or Fiction?, Philip Henshall World War II Data Book: Hitler's Secret Weapons, David Porter
“Non-Fiction” Conspiracy Theory Escape from the Bunker: Hitler's Escape From Berlin, Harry Cooper Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler, Simon Dunstan & Gerrard Williams Hitler's Escape, Ron T. Hansig Hitler's Fate: The Final Story, H. D. Baumann The Murder of Adolf Hitler: The Truth About the Bodies in the Berlin Bunker, W. Hugh Thomas The New Germany and the Old Nazis, T. H. Tetens Neusinger of the Fourth Reich, Charles R. Allen Jr. The Rise of the Fourth Reich: Secret Societies that Threaten to Take Over America, Jim Marrs
Occult The Black Sun: Montauk's Nazi-Tibetan Connection, Peter Moon Hitler's Occult War, Michael Fitzgerald Invisible Eagle: The Hidden History of Nazi Occultism, Alan Baker The Mark of the Beast, Trevor Ravenscroft & Tim Wallace-Murphy The Morning of the Magicians, Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier The Occult Reich, J. H. Brennan One Foot in Atlantis: The Secret Occult History of World War II and Its Impact on New Age Politics, William Henry The Secrets of the Third Reich: The Opening of the Parapsychological Abilities, Sergey Matyushkov * The Secrets of the Third Reich: The Practice of Achieving Tranced State, Sergey Matyushkov * The Spear of Destiny, Trevor Ravenscroft
Super-Science Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival, Joscelyn Godwin Blue Fires: The Lost Secrets of Nazi Technology, Gary Hyland Dark Star, Henry Stevens Hitler's Flying Saucers: A Guide to German Flying Discs of the Second World War, Henry Stevens Hitler's Flying Saucers: A Guide to German Flying Discs of the Second World War (New Edition), Henry Stevens Hitler's Miracle Weapons: vol 1 The Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine, Friedrich Georg Hitler's Miracle Weapons: vol 3 From the America Rocket to an Orbital Station, Friedrich Georg Man-Made UFOs 1944-1994: 50 Years of Suppression, Renato Vesco & David Hatcher Childress Man-Made UFOs: WWII's Secret Legacy, Renato Vesco & David Hatcher Childress Nazi International: The Nazi's Postwar Plan to Control Finance, Conflict, Physics, and Space, Joseph P. Farrell The Omega Files: Secret Nazi UFO Bases Revealed!, Branton The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility, William L. Moore Projekt UFO: The Case for Man-Made Flying Saucers, W. A. Harbinson Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & the Cold War Allied Legend, Joseph P. Farrell Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection, Joseph P. Farrell Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops: A History of A Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations, Joseph P. Farrell Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, The Nazi Bell, and thew Discarded Theory, Joseph P. Farrell The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis' Incredible Secret Technology, Joseph P. Farrell UFO'S Nazi Secret Weapons?, Mattern Friedrich
You can find part 2 of the list HERE.
* = only exists in E-book format ** = owned as E-book, but print edition also exists
Note: this isn't an exhaustive list, it's just stuff I personally own.
joroas:
Wow! That is some feat of work on your part. Thanks for sharing. May have to set up a pulp DVD section.
SBMiniaturesGuy:
Great list! You should add
(Alt War) Robert Conroy: Himmler's War, Red Inferno (ETO) and 1945, 1942 (PTO)
(Occult) David Bishop: Fiends of the Eastern Front (trilogy): Operation Vampyr; The Blood Red Army; Twilight of the Dead
(Rule Books) NUTS! War Without End (Two Hour Wargames)
And I can't think of the title, but I once read a book pitting Nazi golems and sorcery against US troops at Bastogne.
Mainly28s:
Also Golem by Greg Vilk- a Jewish professor's creation runs amok in a Nazi base in the Arctic. Crap book, but it fits in here. Also any of Joseph P Farrell's books will fit into the "non-fiction" category.
MajorTalon:
I think this should be stickied.
And you should add:
DVDs First Squad Video Games Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
|